it s a team by team choice, but i still think i didn t agree with it then and i don t agree with it now, i still think the american flag and national anthem deserves respect and honor. neil: thank you, my friend. joe theismann. that will do it. mortgage rates just dropped to near 50-year lows.
had not went out to get the black vote, you ve not seen republicans raise the issue about the black community as you ve seen president donald trump has. it s not just raising the issue, saying the schools are bad in your neighborhood, unemployment is horrible as he said in 2016. okay, these are the issues, but this is what i m going to deliver to change it. we ve not seen that since the do you believe that i do believe that president trump is going to get more votes in the black community because he has something to actually show. i accomplished this, i m not just talking about how bad it is in your community, but i m giving you the solutions as well. neil: all right. gianna caldwell, the book makes you think. i knew him when. and a fancy best seller. in the meantime, the nfl is cracking down after this brutal brawl. nfl lend joe theismann on whether they made the right call after this.
the least popular guy in town. there s nothing in between. the common ground with these guys is they were all really smart. doug williams, inactive quarterback was the first african-american quarterback to start and win a super bowl. he was a starter in tampa bay in 1978 when an african-american quarterback in the nfl was almost unheard of. he brought both history and current context to the book because he s the personnel director in washington right now. you talked to alex smith who just suffered that horrific injury with people thinking about joe theisman s injury 30 years before him. you got an early paycheck moment with alex smith where he looks at it and thinks oh, i got a thousand books, cool. because 95% of the nfl s salaries are paid during the regular season and he had been through too many camps. he was the first pick in the nfl draft in 2005 and he found two checks in his locker. one for $700, the other for
north korea s ongoing nuclear and ballistic missile programs and expected second trump-kim summit. jared kushner s peace plan. america s closest ally the united kingdom could be leaving the eu in march. russia s increased aggression aimed at american ally ukraine. and amid all this the united states is still at war in afghanistan for the 17th consecutive year. david ignatius, that summarizes just about everything except one thing i want to ask you about. that is the administration s decision to take our troops out of syria despite objections from the pentagon. what does that mean? joe, that was a shock to the pentagon. they didn t see it coming. they were really blind sided by it. pentagon officials from secretary mattis on down feel
after she came out of this coma, she never went home. this obviously is a universal story. this is a great way to capture it through this one very personal story. there s an assumption, i ve got an insurance plan, i m paying a lot of money into it and i assume when i need it, it will be there for me. as steve s story reminds us, it s not. it s not at all. we realize so quickly how vulnerable we are. that s why the film resonates so strongly and that s why we feel it s such an important topic. everyone goes through this. every american has this problem. the big idea of the film that joe asked earlier is that there needs to be accountability and there needs to be transparency in the way the health care system works. any time there s an error that happens, any time some mistake happens, rather than a coverup and denial as a result of